St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

World's largest Christmas store.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.